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Wells Keiko

ウェルズ ケイコ | Wells Keiko
Affiliation and department：
Ritsumeikan University College of Letters, Communication Program

About Ritsumeikan University College of Letters, Communication Program


Job title： Professor
Other affiliations (2)：
Homepage URL  (1)： http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/cg/lt/cp/kokusai/index.html
Research field  (3)： Cultural anthropology and folklore ,  Literature - General ,  Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords  (1)： Oral Tradition and Culture (esp. Folksong Lyrics and Folktales), Literary Folktales, Comparative Folk Culture, American Culture (19th century), American Poetry, Music Culture (African-American, Japanese-American, Anglo-American)
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (9)：
  • 2010 - 2010 ヴァナキュラー文化研究
  • 2010 - 2010 狼女物語
  • 2009 - 2010 語りえない人々の語りに関する超域的研究
  • 2009 - 2009 ヴァナキュラー文化のフロンティア:英語ネットワーク世界と日本
  • 2006 - 2007 新歴史批評の理論と応用に関する研究
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Papers (94)：
  • Keiko WELLS. ヴァナキュラー文学の研究:定義・課題・提言. Ritsumeikan Studies on Literature and Culture. 2019. 30. 4. 133-148
  • keiko WELLS. Variations and Interpretations of the Japanese Religious Folk Ballad, Sansho-Dayu, or "Princess Anju and Prince Zushio" (3): Re-Creation in Modern Fiction, Film, and Children’s Literature. Journal of Ethnography and Folklore. 2018. 1. 2. 44-67
  • Keiko WELLS. アメリカ黒人民話にみる〈語り〉の深層--ハーストンの『騾馬と人間』考. 『ヴァナキュラー文化と現代社会』. 2018. 87-112
  • Keiko WELLS. ヴァナキュラー文化として「赤ずきん」を読む. 『ヴァナキュラー文化と現代社会』. 2018. 115-138
  • Keiko WELLS. 歌と言葉を取り戻すとき--失語からの復帰. 『ヴァナキュラー文化と現代社会』. 2018. 293-300
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MISC (2)：
  • Keiko WELLS. (Book Review) Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative by Tokita. Folk Music Journal. 2015. 11. 1. 82-84
  • Keiko WELLS. "I Hear America singing: American Folksongs of Work and People in the 19th Century". Vintage Clothing. 2014. 1037. 16-33
Books (25)：
  • Vernacular Culture and Modern Society
    Shibunkaku-shuppan Press 2018 ISBN:9784784219339
  • An Introduction to Vernacular Culture in America: Society, Region, and Tradition
    Maruzen Publishing Co. Ltd. 2017 ISBN:9784621301524
  • Shunsuke Kamei, His Oral History
    Kenkyusha 2017 ISBN:9784327481650
  • Looking at the USA through Folksongs
    Shodensha Publications 2016 ISBN:9784396114596
  • Singing and Talking to Survive: African American Songs and Tales
    Iwanami-shoten 2014 ISBN:9784005007660
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Lectures and oral presentations  (40)：
  • The History and Examples of Japanese Buddhist Songs from Early Period of Immigration in Hawaii and the Mainland US, especially in relation to the life of women.
    (Kagoshima-Kyoku-Bukkyo-Fujinkai Renmei 2019)
  • Japanese Folk Religious Song Narrative, Sekkyo-bushi, and Its Variations from 700-year Tradition
    (Institute of Albanology, Prishtina 2019)
  • What is "vernacular literature" and How do we study It?
    (Tobunken Seminar "The Outline of Vernacular Culture Studies" 2018)
  • Sad and Bitter Lullabies of Japan: Creation and Recreation of Child Nursemaids from Labor to Popular Culture
    (The Department of Language, Philosophy and Communication Studies, Utah State University 2018)
  • Voice(s) and Gender in a Japanese Religious Ballad Cycle, Sanshō Dayū (Sanshō the Bailiff)
    (Utah State University, Department of English 2018)
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Works (15)：
  • What I think after years of studying song lyrics
    2019 -
  • Here I come! The first trip to Kosovo of a Japanese: Ja ku jam! Mbresa nga udhëtim i parë i një japonezeje në Kosovë
    2019 -
  • How Does Kosovo Look to a Japanese Woman?
    2019 -
  • Looking for Buddhist songs and singers in Hawaii
    2018 -
  • What was Her Prophecy?: A Girl who Fell on the Stage on the New Year's Eve
    2018 -
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Education (3)：
  • Tsuda College Faculty of Arts and Science British and American Literature
  • Tsuda College Graduate School, Division of Letters English Literature
  • Kobe University Graduate School, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural Structure
Professional career (2)：
  • Ph.D (Art, Literature and Culture)
  • MA (English and American Literature)
Work history (3)：
  • 2003/04/01 - Ritsumeikan University College of Letters
  • 1992/04/01 - 2003/03/31 Ritsumeikan University College of Letters
  • 1987/10/01 - 1992/03/31 Ehime University
Committee career (8)：
  • 2015/01 - 2017/12 Encyclopedia of American Studies Editorial Board Member
  • 2015/01 - 2017/12 アメリカ研究百科事典(オンライン英語版) 編集委員
  • 2017/04 - 日本バラッド協会 運営委員
  • 2015/01 - 2015/02 UNIV Press of Colorado | Utah State Univ. Press Book Reviewer
  • 2015/01 - 2015/02 コロラド大学出版|ユタ州立大学出版 図書審査委員
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Awards (2)：
  • 2011/11 - Popular Culture Association of Japan Kamei Shunsuke Award (Popular Culture Association of Japan)
  • 2000/09 - Fulbright Japan Fulbright Research Grant
Association Membership(s) (7)：
Popular Culture Association of Japan ,  The Ballad Society of Japan ,  The Japan Mark Twain Society ,  Japan Black Studies Association ,  The Japanese Association for American Studies ,  The American Literature Society of Japan ,  International Ballad Conference
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